CHRISTIAN TRINITY: A DOCTRINE OF DEMONS
PART TWO

Definition and Interpretation of the Trinity Doctrine

In continuation of my treatise on the trinity I wish to restate that I would be very happy to get a contrary opinion from Pastors who teach this unscriptural Doctrine from their Churches. In my previous interaction with a few of them they always condemn my position without providing any scriptural reason for their condemnation. One Pastor went as far as naming five of the most popular church Pastors in Nigeria and asked that if they could believe in the Trinity who was I to condemn it?

It is very sad that some of those who Christians look up to are the very ones leading them astray. I have written and offered to send the five major Churches in Nigeria a full copy of a book I wrote on this Topic for their perusal/input/condemnation. Not a single one of them replied me. Truth is, they have very little or nothing to say.

As usual, I still challenge any Church Pastor to deny what I have written here. And my offer to give a full copy of my book free of charge to any Pastor who demands for it still stands.

Welcome once again to the truth of God as written in the Bible.

1 Timothy 4:1

“But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons”.

One of the most outstanding beliefs held closely by Christians is the belief in a triune God, popularly known as the Doctrine of Trinity. At present, hundreds of millions of Christians believe in the Trinity concept. They believe in the doctrine mostly because their well known and respected Pastors, Reverends and Bishops and other Church leaders believe in it and not necessarily because they have read it in the Bible that God is a triune God.

They do not know how and when the doctrine found its way into the Christian religion because it was certainly not explicitly taught by our Lord Jesus Christ nor by his apostles. This is a fact many will not agree with now but will surely agree with later when they read the facts that will be delivered in black and white in this Book.

Permit me to first define this word ‘Trinity’ in secular language as may be derived from ‘Biblical’ thoughts.

Webster’s dictionary gives the following definition of Trinity as:

“The union of three divine persons (or hypostases), the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in one divinity, so that all the three are one God as to substance, but three Persons (or hypostases as to individuality).”

Synonyms sometimes used for the word ‘Trinity’ are triunity, trine, triality and/or Three-in-One. The term “Trinity” is formed from “tri,” three, and “nity,” unity. Triunity is a better term than “Trinity” because it better expresses the idea of three in one. The dictionary also defines ‘Hypostases’ as the plural of hypostasi which means “the substance, the underlying reality, or essence”.

In plain language, the Trinity Doctrine teaches that God is three ‘Persons’ or ‘Substance’ in one entity and all the three ‘Persons’ or ‘Substance’ in that entity are one and the same.

Many do not care to find out if the doctrine of a Triune God is supported by the scriptures or not, sufficient for them is the fact that their Church elders believe in it. A few who do read the Bible and are skeptical of that belief do not have the courage, or are not encouraged, to question this doctrine before their Church Pastors or congregation. Why should someone ever try to question an assumed ‘Truth’ of God?

But many who have studied the scriptures, those who want to really know the truth themselves, have discovered, beyond all reasonable doubts, that the doctrine is not backed by the Word of God. It is only backed by the words of men.

The fact is Almighty God never said He was three in one neither did Jesus Christ ever teach that he was the Almighty God. If he ever did he would have been killed earlier. They killed him because he taught that he was the Son of God. Those who killed Jesus Christ would have roasted his alive and made a meal out of his roasted flesh if they ever thought he was claiming to be God himself.

This is not to say that the Bible does not mention anything that may be construed as supporting the doctrine but, compared to many other verses in the Old and New Testaments, the arguments against the belief that Jesus Christ is the Almighty God, are much more superior.

To discuss this issue that has torn Christianity and Christian beliefs into pieces we must also define the term ‘Trinity’ in Christian parlance as it relates to Christianity.

The Roman Catholic Church, which originally assimilated this concept into Christianity (and from which the Protestant churches developed their own version) explained that the Trinity is the term employed to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion. It is expressed clearly in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.

Below is a translation of part of the Creed that was largely not derived from the Bible:

“Whoever wants to be saved should above all cling to the catholic faith. Whoever does not guard it whole and inviolable will doubtless perish eternally. Now this is the catholic faith: We worship one God in Trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being. For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Spirit is still another. But the deity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, equal in glory, coeternal in majesty. What the Father is, the Son is, and so is the Holy Spirit. Uncreated… infinite… eternal… And yet there are not three eternal beings, but one who is eternal… Almighty is the Father… And yet there are not three almighty beings, but one who is almighty. Thus the Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God: And yet there are not three gods, but one God….not three lords, but one Lord.

The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, also popularly called the Athanasian Creed, continues in a language that is a concoction of a great part of Greek Philosophy mixed with a little part of scriptures:

“As Christians, truth compels us to acknowledge each distinct person as God and Lord, so Catholic religion forbids us to say that there are three gods or lords. The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten; the Son was neither made nor created, but was alone begotten of the Father; the Spirit was neither made nor created, but is proceeding from the Father and the Son. Thus there is one Father, not three fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three spirits. And in this Trinity, no one is before or after, greater or less than the other; but all three persons are in themselves, coeternal and coequal; and so we must worship the Trinity in unity and the one God in three persons. Whoever wants to be saved should think thus about the Trinity”.

It should be noted that this Creed was made into Law in the year 381 A.D in a meeting of Christian Bishops held in the city of Constantinople. Why did it take over three hundred and fifty years for the then highest seat of the Christian faith to discover that Jesus Christ is the Almighty God?

I wish to draw attention to the fact that this Creed was formulated from an earlier Creed, the Nicene Creed, which reared its head in an earlier meeting held in 325 AD.

Let us have a glimpse of the Nicene Creed from which the Athanasian Creed developed.

The Nicene Creed reds in part:

"We believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate”.

“He suffered and was buried, and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no end.”

“And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And we believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins. And we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen”.

Both Creeds, the Nicene and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creeds, are responsible for the belief Christians have in the Trinity Doctrine today.

But some argue that there are so many things wrong with this creed as delivered to us from the Catholic Church.

In The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound 1994, by Anthony F. Buzzard Charles F. Hunting we read that:

"Those Trinitarians who believe that the concept of a Triune God was such an established fact that it was not considered important enough to mention at the time the New Testament was written should be challenged by the remarks of another writer, Harold Brown [who opined that]:"It is a simple fact and an undeniable historical fact that several major doctrines that now seem central to the Christian Faith -- such as the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of the nature of Christ -- were not present in a full and self-defined generally accepted form until the fourth and fifth centuries. If they are essential today – as all of the orthodox creeds and confessions assert – it must be because they are true. If they are true, then they must always have been true; they cannot have become true in the fourth and fifth century. But if they are both true and essential, how can it be that the early church took centuries to formulate them?"

I must highlight a glaring misinterpretation of a fact in the creed. It says that the Father is not begotten but the son is, yet they are equal in everything, age, omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. It is Almighty God that begat Jesus Christ. That means before Jesus Christ was begotten God existed. A father and son cannot be equal in age. The Creator and the created can never be the same. Jesus Christ admits in many verses in the Bible that God is greater than he is. This clearly shows that the Nicene Creed is just a fabrication of people that were greatly living under the influence of Greek philosophers. But this is just a tip of the iceberg.

The statement that the Trinity is the central doctrine of Christianity is not Biblical. It is a creation of the Catholic Church because, as we will soon see, the doctrine as a whole in itself is not Biblical.

As far as Jesus is concerned the central doctrine of Christianity is to love Almighty God with all our heart, all our minds and all our spirit and also to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Jesus Christ never said he is God. Men made him God over three hundred years after he died.

A lot of Christians are on the same page as regards the Trinity teachings in the Bible that there is one God who is actuality three ‘Substance’ in one entity. Proponents of the Trinity explain that this does not mean three independent Gods existing as one, but three Persons who are co-equal, co-eternal, inseparable, interdependent, and eternally united in one absolute Divine Essence and Being.

Many who believe in the Trinity admit that it is not easy to define. They just can never explain the singularity of the three ‘Persons’ or ‘Substance’ in the ‘Godhead’. It is indeed very difficult to explain that three is one and one is three when we all know that one is one and three is three. The Holy Bible never claimed it nor mentioned any phenomena that makes one equal to three or vice versa but men are doing all they can to prove it is so with their own warped understanding. Surely the devil is at work in this matter.

In this light, B.B. Warfield, in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, unsuccessfully attempts to at least make non-Trinitarians understand the incomprehensible description of the Trinity. He states that:

“There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.”

According to the Trinity Doctrine there is one God who actually contains three ‘Persons’. Each of these three ‘Persons’ is God on their own but the three ‘Persons’ together do not make three Gods but add up to one God. There is no need to pretend all is well with this teaching. It is clear nonsense because it makes no sense. I perceive that many would say I do not have the ‘grace’ or ‘anointing’ to understand this demonic teaching in Christianity. I challenge all the Pastors who believe in this nonsense to explain it in clear terms to their congregation. My God is surely not the author of confusion. Anything He teaches in the Bible He has made clear in the Bible.

Below we will see how much people have tried to explain what they themselves agree cannot be understood.

In this work permit me to define the words ‘Person’, ‘Essence’, ‘Substance’ and ‘Subsistence’ in the same words proponents of the Trinity Doctrine define them in general. According to a renowned Trinity scholar, Kenneth Boa in his Book, Unraveling the Big Questions About God, Lamplighter Books, p. 12, he says, as regards the word ‘Person’ in theTrinity that:

“… the term is not used in same way it is in ordinary usage in which it means an identity completely distinct from other persons. Actually the word ‘persons’ tends to detract from the unity of the Trinity… the three Persons are inseparable, interdependent, and eternally united in one Divine Being”.

I honestly cannot find where the Bible teaches this. It is obvious that Trinitarians are trying to find the most suitable English words to use to tell us that Jesus Christ is the same with God yet this same Jesus Christ in so many places in the Bible admits that Almighty God is greater than he is.

The first man who stood up to oppose the Catholic Church doctrine of Purgatory through which the clergy enrich themselves by deceiving the ordinary peasant churchgoers, Martin Luther, seemed to have had this same thought which he expressed in one of his sermons edited by John Lenker, Vol. 3, 1988, p. 406:

“It is indeed true that the name 'Trinity' is nowhere to be found in the Holy Scriptures, but has been conceived and invented by man”.

For those who may not have heard of Martin Luther he is the one who, about one thousand five hundred years ago, exposed the belief that Christians can pay money to the Church leaders for God to forgive their sins. Sadly enough this same thing is being preached indirectly today by the Protestant churches in many different ways. They tell us that we must sow a seed if we want God to bless us. And this seed must be money. No money no blessing.

Kenneth Boa also agrees that the word “person” is not ideal for the purpose of explaining the Trinity (it really seems there are yet no other words that can be used appropriately to describe this strange nature of God). Knowing that the word is too degrading to be used for the Almighty God, Kenneth Boa says:

“Orthodox writers have opted for the tern ’Subsistence’ (the mode or quality of existence), hence, “God has three substances…the word substance speaks of God’s essential nature or being and subsistence describes His mode or quality of existence.”

Again, these words ;substance’ and ‘subsistence’ were never used to describe our Father in the whole Bible. They were words actually taken from Greek philosophers who tried to describe the Christian God in their own language based on their demonic indoctrination.

Using these words to describe God in Christian parlance is all about using big grammar to describe what cannot be described. Why the struggle to define the plain God the Bible revealed to us without the Bible? It really shouldn’t be because the Bible never taught that three ‘Persons’ make up the Almighty God. No Trinitarian on earth can produce any verse where Jesus Christ or his Disciples ever insinuated this. .

In its theological usage, according to some Trinitarians, ‘Essence’ refers to “the intrinsic or indispensable, permanent, and inseparable qualities that characterize or identify the being of God.” The Bible never mentioned that the Almighty God is a ‘Person’, ‘Substance’, Subsistence’ or an ‘Essence’ either in the Hebrew or Greek scriptures. The Bible simply tells us that God is a Spirit Being. The words above were never used in the Bible to describe Almighty God or his relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord. They were words borrowed from great philosophers who lived in those times to describe the ‘Threeness’ of whoever they perceive to be the Almighty God. These facts readers will find out if they patiently read on.

Many who profess to believe in the Trinity agree that it is really a doctrine beyond the scope of man’s finite mind. They know this and more often agree themselves that the Trinity Doctrine lies outside the realm of natural reason or human logic and thus is not comprehensible. This is clearly admitting that the Bible does not explain it and, as such, nobody can. But those who believe in the doctrine teach it in such a way that the common Church attendant, who is too lazy to read the Bible himself, believes what the teachers themselves claim cannot be understood.

Are there any doctrines or teachings in the Bible that are not clearly understood?